The Latest: Kaine says voter ID ruling lets more people vote

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine says North Carolina is an even more attractive target for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign after a federal court ruling throwing out a voter ID law that judges said was designed by state Republicans to depress minority participation.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee said Wednesday in Greensboro that the court ruling last week means an additional 100,000 voters could cast ballots this fall.

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the wide ranging law passed in 2013 discriminates against minority voters in violation of the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act. The law also cut the number of days of early voting and eliminated same-day voter registration and out of precinct voting.

Kaine asked a couple hundred supporters attending the indoor rally to volunteer for a voter registration drive this weekend.

“If your vote doesn’t count, why is the other side working so hard to keep you from it?” Kaine said at the rally inside a refurbished downtown train station.

2:45 p.m.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says the lifetime knowledge and esteem he and Hillary Clinton share for small businesses is a stark difference between their backgrounds and Donald Trump.

Kaine toured a High Point company Wednesday that cuts and sews customized window treatments for motel chains. He told Amerifab International President Kajal Bhatt that Trump hurt small businesses that supplied his casino companies by declaring bankruptcy, leaving them with pennies on the dollar of what they were owed for their work.

“That has been a repeated track record with Donald Trump,” Kaine said. “Hillary Clinton will be your “hired” president. Donald Trump will be your “fired” president.”

Kaine said he and Clinton have long been familiar with the operating pressures on small businesses since his father owned a welding and iron-working company. Clinton’s father ran a drapery business.

Kaine also showed his fluency in Spanish, engaging with a sewing-machine operator who was unable to respond when he asked how long she had worked at the company. Bhatt told Kaine the woman spoke Spanish. Kaine switch to Spanish and chatted with the woman for about a minute.

He spoke later at a rally in Greensboro.

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Editors: This item has been corrected to give the correct type of business that Clinton’s father ran.

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The Democrat running for vice president is visiting North Carolina aiming to persuade voters Hillary Clinton would boost jobs and the economy if elected president.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine speaks to supporters in Greensboro on Wednesday as he talks up Clinton’s job-creation plan. He’s also scheduled to visit a small business in High Point that manufactures bedding and window equipment.

Kaine has been reaching out to Southern voters this week, campaigning in Florida on Tuesday and Virginia on Monday.